The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis [Ind.])
October 18, 1883

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ESTABLISHED 1823. WHEN INDICATIONS. For Tennessee and the Ohio Talley—Local rains in west portion, fair weather in east portion, stationary or lower temperature, wiuds mostly southeasterly.

Yesterday was not a “Candy Day 55 at tlio bu.t a genuine JEANS PANT DAY.

A kind of Jeans Pant picnic, as it were, lor the work ing men of Indianapolis. The—we’d—give—seven—cents to—be—able—to—-compete-—competition, who were going to cut a watermelon for the laboring men, by selling Jeans at 25c, fizzled out very soon after sun up, and the WHEN, who had not advertised a lower price than 40c, sold a great many hundreds to Men, Youths and Boys for 20 CENTS The sale lasting from morning until 5 p. m., and at times the WHEN was pacKed with buyers. Through misunder standing, one ol our salesmen sold a quantity to a dealer, and they had to be delivered, as the money had been re ceived lor them, so competition will be able to sell them cheap to-day without much loss. TO-DAY 4 We expect several hundred pairs of Jeans. If they come they will go for 5 cents. They are not very good ones, not near as good as as those we sold yesterday, and they are not of our manufacture; but we name the price if the goods come, and we thinx they will. In addition to this, we will sell a lot of Men’s, Youths’ and Boys’ Vests at 10 cents, and a job lot of Coats for $1 each, to go with the pants which we sold yesterday. This stocic, at the price, is not calculated to remain long upon our counters. You can staxe your foundation dollar on this fact: That it was not publishing lalse statements that built the reputa tion of the WHEN. o THE YARDMEN’S STRIKE. I hirty Deputy Sheriffs Sworn In and Dis tributed in the Different Yards. f St. Louis, Oct. 17.—Sheriff Roubiquat, of St. Clair county, Illinois, has sworn in about thirty men as deputy sheriffs, and has dis tributed them in the different railroad yards, in East St. Louis. Seven United States I deputy marshals were also on the ground, but they were specially assigned to the Ohio Mississippi yards, that road being under protection of the United States Court. In the Cairo Short-line yard, one new man was assaulted, and all other new men in that yard were driven out by the strikers, but after the deputy sheriffs made their appearance, the strikers left and the new men resumed work. All the roads ara working small forces, made up of the employes of other de partments, bnt the trains move slowly, ex cept in the O. M. yard, where the usual work is done under protection, and where there is nearly a full force. On this side of the river the situation is much the same as in East St. Louis, except that there are no special officers on duty, the clerks and other employes doing some work, and perishable freight being moved reasonably well, but there is little life in the yards. The railroad managers held a meeting this forenoon, but it is impossible to tell their action. The strikers assert that the yardmen in Indian apolis, Cincinnati and Pittsburg will strike within a and that their demand will be the same as that made here, viz., the Chi cago standard. WOMEN IN CONVENTION. Eleventh Annual Congress of the Associa tion for Worn an’s Advancement. Chicago, Oct. 17. —The eleventh annual congress of the Association for the Advance ment of Women began at 2 o’clock this after noon, a large number of distinguished women from all parts of the country being in attend ance. Julia Ward Howe, the aged president, made the opening address, and referred, with some feeling, to the first session of the associ ation, held in this city in 1872, and the fact that many of those concerned in that organi zation had passed away. She declared a great deal had been accomplished for and by the women of the country during the inter vening period, but declared that the great reforms were to come after the present leaders had quitted this sphere of action, as the world was slow in according to woman her rights. Mrs. H. L. T. Walcott, of Boston, read a a paper on the work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She sketched the condition and treatment of children 250 years ago, the various steps taken toward their protection in tlie forma tion of the first society for prevention of cruelty toward them in'New York, and the adoption of the plan thus outlined. The paper was discussed at some length. Following this Mrs. Caroline Seaverance, of California, read a paper by Mrs. Jennie Carr, of tlie same State, on “Women and the land.” Mrs. Carr is en gaged iu silk culture on the coast. The dis THE: INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. discussion on this paper occupied the re mainder of the afternoon. An executive session was held at the Palmer House in the morning, at which reports were made in re gard to the doings of women in science, art, education, philanthrophy and reform. Tlie paper on science was presented by Sarah E. Mitchell, the well-known astronomer. TAPPING THE WIRES. How the Chicago Bucket Shops Were Re ceiving the Market Reports. Chicago, Oct- 17.—A warrant was issued to-day for the arrest of C. T. Van winkle and William Alkorn, at the instance of the West ern Union Telegraph Company, on charge of conspiracy. The trouble dates from last May, when the Western Union refused to furnish market quotations to the bucket shops, and removed its tickers. Asa conse quence the bucket shops have since been working all sorts of schemes to secure re ports, with varying success. For a time it was supposed they managed to receive quotations by means of signs from parties on the Board of Trade, until the fact became known that they were re ceiving quotations not only as fully, but just as sent over the Western Union wires, and an investigation developed the fact, as alleged, that Van Winkle and Alkorn had tapped the Western Union wires at the Union Stockyards, and had run a branch wire into a small office of this city, where the quotations were taken off, and, it is said, sent to ail the different bucket-shops. Van winkle was held in SI,OOO bail until the 23d, for examination. Alkorn is not yet ar rested. THE NEWSPAPER PEOPLE. Annual Meeting of the Western Associated Press—Selection of Officers. Detroit, Oct. 17.—The regular annual meeting of the Western Associated Press was held here to-day, for the election of officers and consideration of other business. In the absence of the president, General B. R. Cowen, of Columbus, presided. Reports of the year’s transactions were made by Rich ard Smith, chairman of the executive com mittee, and William Henry Smith, general manager. Important committees were ap pointed to consider the amendment of the copyright law and revision of the postal law relative to rates of newspaper postage. The following were elected as board of directors: Richard Smith, W. N. Haldeman, D. M. Houser, M. E. Stone. John C. New, Col. A. 11. Beloaf, General B. R. Cowan. The board met, organized and elected the following of ficers: President, Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune; vice-president, C. W. Knapp, of the St. Louis, Republican; secretary, W. E. Baker, of the Detroit Post and Tribune; ex ecutive committee, Richard Smith, W. N. Haldeman, Melville E. Stone. Do not waste your money for every new rem edy advertised to cure a cough, when you know that Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup lias stood the popu lar test for thirty years. Prute 25 cents. INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER IS, 1883. JACOB SELLING’S CRIME. Details of the Action of the Mob of Tuesday Night., at Fowler. Drunk Men Without Leaders—lntimations that Nelling Will Certainly He Lynched at Some Future Time. An Interview with the Prisoner in His Cell iu the Jail, at Fowler. He Sets tip the Insanity Plea—The Murderer Removed to Lafayette for Safe-Keep ing—About His Past Life. TUESDAY NIGHT’S MOB. Scenes and Incidents in the Town While the Would-Be Lynchers Were Present, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fowler, lud., Oct. 17. —The howling mob which lingered about Fowler last night, threatening to lynch Jacob Nelling, the mur derer of Ada Atkinson, had entirely dis persed before daylight, and when the sun peeped over the straggling little town from across the prairie this morning, it was as quiet as if its serenity had not been appalled only a few hours before by the blood-cloud and threatening thunder of mob vio lence. The awful cloud, however, it is now evident, was only a vapor, and from its constitutional elements of weakness it was dispelled without any seri ous damage io any object with which it came in contact. The wind-mill is almost the sole motive power by which machinery in Benton county is operated, and the strength of the mob which made such a bois terous attempt last night to lynch Nelling was constituted of the same forces. It is bad engineering to try to run machinery and mobs on the same principles of motive power. The crowd which gathered at Fowler yes terday afternoon and last night was attracted by a curiosity to see the lynching which had been so loudly threatened, and, among the GOO or 700 men who had congregated in the place, it is doubtful if there were a dozen persons who had come to town with the de termination to join in doing violence. Each was expecting the other todo what both were wanting to witness. Most of those who were in town had come to stay all night, and every place where lodging could be obtained was crowded to its fullest capacity. Those who arrived late were unable to get lodging, and therefore had to walk the streets the night. It was regarded as a holiday occasion* and the saloons were freely patronized. Be fore dark the crowd was boisterously drunk, and the town was in an uproar. Threats that the murderer would be lynched could be heard in chorus all along the streets, but some body of men besides those already in town were expected to do the work. The mob was expected to arrive from Templeton at 9 o’clock, but it did not come. The drunken crowd reeled up the street toward the jail, howling fiercely, but no concerted movement was made, and without a leader and without organization they gathered about the jail, expecting the prisoner to be delivered to them upon demand. The fierce howling which was kept up incessantly had the effect to discomfit Nelling as much as if it had been a determined and irresistible mob, and made things about the jail very interesting for a few moments. INCIDENTS OF TUE NIGHT. There were many ludicrous phases to the eveuts and incidents of the night, and, viewed with an "after-the-battle” glance, the whole thing seerus to have been noth ing more than a riotous drunk. With a dozen cool, determined men in the lead, however, when the excitement was at the highest, there might have been a lynching. A Mr. Menifee, of Boswell, a brother-in-law to the murdered girl, was pushed to the front as a leader while the crowd were howl ing about the jail, but he was called aside by Sheriff Scanlon, and after a moment’s talk was dissuaded from having anything fur ther to do with the mob. “If you will promise me that Nelling shall not be taken outside of this county for trial, lam willing to let the law deal with him,” Menifee is re ported to have said to the sheriff. The sheriff of course, promised. After the mob withdrew from the jail, a party of thirty or forty men marched down to the railroad tracks "to get an iron rail with which to batter down the jail doors. In their bloodthirsty desperation, however, they turned upon a harmless hand-car and smashed it into small pieces for no better reason than that it happened to be locked. The iron rail was abandoned after it was found that there was no fun in carrying it around. When the situation seemed most dubious, which was about the hour of 9 o’clock, the Journal representative, at the request of Sheriff Scanlon, telegraphed to Adjutant general Carnahan, at Lafayette, to come to his assistance with all possible speed. Wi thin a hour General Carnahan had called together the members of the Lafayette vet eran company of the Indiana Legion, but then the crowd had quieted considerably, and it seemed probable that they would not be needed. They were ordered, however, to remain at their armory to await further or ders, and General Carnahan came up to Fowler this morning at 3 o’clock. After a consultation with the sheriff he came to the conclusion that the militia would not bo needed, and the members of the company were given permission to return to their homes. General Carnahan himself returned to Lafayette this morning at 8 o’clock, and in the evening went to Indianapolis. The speed with which the company was brought together ready for action is rather remarka ble, and is highly creditable to the organiza tion of the State’s militia. THE THREAT TO BLOW UP THE JAIL. When the rumor got in circulation about the streets this morning at 2 o’clock that an attempt would be made shortly before day light to blow up the jail with Hercules powder the jail officers became very much alarmed. Several men had assembled in a workshoD in town, about 2 o’clock, and, it was understood, were making preparations for the explosion. In mingling with the crowd in the street the Journal representa tive found the man who was to lead the ex ploding party, and succeeded in dieting from him a statement of the details of the si heme, and was given the assurance that if the plans were executed, the explosion would occurr about an hour before daylight. The sheriff had greater fears that some at tempt would be made to blow up the jail than that it would be attacked by a mob. Peter Messenger, an officer of the Fowler Grand Army post, and whose occupation is tnat of an undertaker, it was understood was the man who was to lead the exploding party. He was approached on the street shortly before noon by the Journal repre sen t-.ive, and was asked why the explosion had not occurred as expected. ‘Simply because,” he replied, "there were not five men in all that crowd of seven or eight hundred who had the grit to do the work. I offered to be one of five men to ex plode the building, but no one could be fouud who would volunteer to join me.” I “What kind of explosives did you intend to use?” was asked. "We would have used He oules powder. We had eight pounds of it, but we could find no cartridges in town, and the nearest place where they could be obtained was ten miles away. We expected a cartridge to arrive, however, on the train this morning at 3 o’clock, which would have been an hour be fore the time fixed for the explosion. It was the intention to blow the thing up about daylight, when everything would be quiet and the guard would not be expecting anything.” "Is there any probability that an attempt will yet be made to blow up the jail?” "There is certain to be. Nothing will be done now for several days, and probably will not until a few days before the trial is to be held in November, but that man Nelling will certainly be killed!” “Is there any organized body of men who are to lynch him?” "Yes.” "If there is a determination to lynch him, why was it not done last night when the ex citement was so high?” “Because the men who were here did not have the grit. After that crowd assaulted the jail at 9 o’clock, a mob of thirty-five men was organized to take Nelling out of jail just after the arrival of the 3 o'clock train, when reinforcements of the mob were expected from about Oxford and Templeton. Jerome Waddle was to have met the mob at the stock-yards, soutli of town, at 3 o’clock. He came promptly at the time, and had the rope for the hanging under his arm, but I was the only man who was on barn/. We have got men of grit, though, who will atteDd to this thing at the proper time.” There were others in town who talked free ly about lynching. None of the men who were in the crowd that assaulted the jail last night made any attempt to disguise them selves, and one of the notable things in con nection with the attempted lynching is that no one who was in the mob seems to realize that there is any danger of prosecution for lawlessness. Duncan Williams, a well-known citizen of Oxford, who deprecates the idea of a lynching, also stated yesterday that he con fidently believed there wasar, organized body in the county which would yet attempt to mob Nelling. NELLING IN HIS CELL. A Visit to the Prisoner, Who Puts in a Plea of Insanity. Special to tlie Indianapolis Journal. Fowler, Ind., Oct. 17.—From the time Nelling was locked inside his cell, last even ing, until his breakfast was taken to him this morning at 8 o’clock, the prison doors were not opened and he was not seen by any one, so that it is not known how he con ducted himself while the mob was howling about the jail last night. To have reached him where he was confined, the mob would have had to break through seven iron doors. Three other prisoners were also confined in the jail—two crazy men and a woman, who is awaiting trial for picking a pocket—but they were placed in another part of the building. Nelling was given his breakfast at 8 o'clock, and he ate heartily. The Journal representative was permitted to enter the jail shortly after 10 o’clock this morning, Nelling was found walking rest lessly back and fortli in his cell, smoking a pipe. When asked how he had slept during the night he answered: “I didn’t sleep a wink.” “Could you hear the mob outside?” "Yes,” he answered. “Could you understand anything that they were saying?” “Yes. I could hear very distinctly, and I could distinguish from the voices that the ones who were making the noise were over grown boys. They had not been here long until I heard someone call out, ‘Come on, let’s go home,’ and then pretty soon every thing seemed to be quiet again.” “Did you have any fears?” "Well, you may just think how you would feel yourself under such circum stances.” During the conversation Nelling did not cease walking back and forth in his cell, and his manner indicated extreme restlessness, although he talked with slow deliberation, and betrayed no excitement in his language. During the conversation he was questioned about the murder, and he repeated the story that he was seized with a mania, while work ing in ttie field, to kill the girl. “It first seemed to me that I could not control myself,” he said; and when asked ii he had any remembrance of the circum stances of the killing, he replied; “It all seems to me just like a dream.” “Why did you make the statement that Ladd had committed the murder?” “I don’t know.” As the interview was brought to a close the question was asked: "Do you think that your mind was deranged when you commit ted the murder?” “Gentlemen, all I have got to say is that I would never have killed Ada if I had been in my right mind.” As he pronounced the words his voice quavered slightly, and a tear welled up into his eyes. It was the first time since his ar rest that he has manifested the least emo tion. A CHANGE OF BANE. Nelling Transferred to Lafayette—A Free Talk with the Murder, r. Rperial In tlie ImUanapoMs Journal. Fowler, Ind., Oct. 17.—As the passenger train, which arrives at Fowler at 12:40 o’clock p. m., going south, was brought to a stop a covered buggy, drawn by two horses, dashed up to the depot. A man leaped from the ve hicle, and, running rapidly across the plat form, he was hurried into the first car by two men who held to his arms. The train immediately pulled out, and was speeding down across the prairie before what had hap- pened could dawn upon the minds of the twenty-five or thirty people who were left standing on the Fowler station platform gazing after the rapidly disappearing train, with open-mouthed astonishment. The man who had leaped from the covered ve hicle and run across the platform was Jacob Nelling, the murderer of Ada Atkinson. The two men who were hurrying along with him were Sheriff Scanlon and ex-Sherilf Ilarmon. Before the train had got out of sight of Fowler the prisoner was taken into the baggage car, where he could be bet ter protected and kept from view. The sheriff had become alarmed at the threats to blow up the jail with dynamite, and had decided to take his prisoner to Lafayette for safe keeping. No one but the jail officers had been informed of the inten tion to remove him. Just as the train had appeared in sight in approaching the town Nelling had been placed in the buggy, and the horses were driven in a gallop to the depot by an indirect route, where Messrs. Scanlon and Harmon were waiting to hurry bin} across the platform and on the train. He was kept closely concealed in the baggage car, and passed through Templeton, the sta tion within three miles of where the murder was committed, without anyone at the place learning that lie was on the train. Nelling showed that he appreciated to the fullest the danger into which he was likely to fall, but tlie iron mask of imoeturbability which envelopes his character seemed invulnerable to a weaken ing fear. Cephas Atkinson, the father of the mur dered girl, boarded the train at Templeton, but not until within a few miles of Lafayette did he learn that Nelling was on the train. When told, Mr. Atkinson exclaimed: “If I had only known it an hour in advance, I could have had a hundred men at the depot, who would never have permitted him to get out ot the county.” A TALK WITH THE PRISONER. The Journal representative sat beside Nell ing during the ride from Fowler down to Lafaj ette. “There is little danger now of a mob,” re marked the reporter, after the train had got well past Templeton and out of sight of Oxford. “Yes, I believe there is only on more stop ping-place,” remarked the prisoner. A conversation was opened up with Nell ing relating to the particulars of his crime, and he became more communicative than at any time since Ids arrest. He answered all interrogatories freely, and during the ride of twenty miles from Templeton to Lafayette he talked almost incessantly, showing no disposition in his answers to tiie questions which were put to him, to conceal anything. “N'elling,” the Journal representative asked, “what was the cause of your’ murder ing Ada Atkinson?” T can’t tell, any more than this,” replied Nelling. “While I was working in the field a kind of mania came over me, which said that I must kill some person, and the same feeling which seemed to tell me that I must kill someone told me that it must be Ada.” “And yon felt that you could not control that feeling?” “No.” “What was Ada doing when you went to the house to kill her?” "I don’t remember distinctly, but I be lieve she was combing her hair.” “What did you do to her first?” ‘‘l believe 1 cut her throat with my knife first, and I don’t remember what I did do after that.” “Did you tear her underclothing from her?” "I have no recollection of doing anything of that kind. I don’t think I did, because if I had, the clothes would have been found in the room.” “How long were you at the house when you committed tlie murder?” “I don’t think I was away from my work longer than twenty or thirty minutes.” “Did not you go to the house with the in tention of outraging her?” “No. Such a thought never once entered my mind. If I had wanted to have done any thing of that kind there would have been no need of killing her, because I was big and strong enough to do anything with her that I might have wanted to. Such a thought never entered my mind. I always looked on Ada just as if she was niv own child. I killed her just because a mania to do itcame over me.” “Do you believe, Nelling, that this theory of a mania completely takes away one’s senses?” was asked. “I do not advocate it as a theory, but I state it as a fact.” “Do you remember what you did to the girl after cutting her throat?” “I do not. It all seems to me like a dream. I kuow that I went to the house to kill her, and that I cut her throat, but I have no dis tinct recollection of what else happened. It’s just like a dream to me. I can’t real ize it.” “Did you ever have a mania to murder someone come over you before?” “Never. One time in Pennsylvania I had a spell something like it. I wandered away from home, and came to myself in a stubble field, eight miles away. My sister—l have three sisters in Pennsylvania—got a letter from my wife about this.” A DEED THAT BANISHED SLEEP. "Since you murdered Ada, how have you felt?” “I have not had a single night’s rest. I can’t sleep. Night before last while I was lying in my cell, Ada walked in, and her face was deathly pale. As she came in at my cell door, she said: ‘Jake, you need not worry about me; Emma and I are hav ing a good time,’ and then she walked back across the cell, and disappeared again through the door.” “Who is Emma?” "linims was an older sister of Ada. She died about six or seven years ago,” “You are sure that it was Ada who ap peared to vou in vour cell?” “Yes.” "How was she dressed?” “I have no remembrance of how she was dressed, but I know site looked deathly pale.” "Did she have blood-marks about her throat as she appeared to you?” “No.” "Did the sight of her make you feel bad?” "Not justat that time.” “Nelling, what preparations are you mak ing for your trial?” asked the Journal repre sentative, steering tlie questioning into a new channel. "I have left the whole thing with Coroner Hitze.” “You want a lawyer, I suppose?” "Yes.” “Have you any money?” "Hardly any; I have got about *2OO owing to me. Ceph. Atkinson owes me $110.” "When you are placed on trial will you plead guilty?” “Yes." "I suppose you are aware that the penalty will probably be death?” "Yes." HR WOULD LIKE TO PIE DECENTLY. “In making your confession, had you made up your mind that you would have to die?” “Yes; I expect it, but I want to die decent [Coutinued ou Second Page.J PRICE FIVE CENTS. TIIE LATEST FOREIGN NEWS An Earthquake Destroys Several Vil lages anti a Thousand Lives. O’Donnell Pleads “Not Guilty,’* and Secures a Postponement of His Trial Until November ‘4l, County Franchise To Bea Leading Issue in the British Parliament. I’olitieal Rioting in Spain —Serious Illness of tlie Elder Du mas —A Thousand l ‘er sons Made Homeless by Fire GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. A Number of Villages Destroyed, and Ono Thousand Persons Perish. Constantinople, Oct. 17.—There is re ported much damage to property and great loss of life, caused by earthquakes, on the peninsula between Chesmo and Asia Minor, opposite Chios and Vourla, on the southern coast of the Gulf of .Smyrna. All the vil lages of that region are destroyed. It is be lieved that upward of 1,000 persons have perished. The survivors of the disaster are suffering fearful privations. A complete panic prevails. Most of the houses collapsed at the first shock, burying their inmates. The people who escaped became panic stricken and sought the fields, where many are still huddled together in a starving con dition and suffering from cold. Help for the stricken people is going for ward from Smyrna. The Porte has issued a notice stating that 20,000 persons are home less, and pleading for immediate assistance. A government commission will start as soon as possible to aid tlie local officials. The re port that 1,000 persons had perished is con firmed. A HORRIBLE STOliv. Statement that tlie French Troops Massacred Unarmed Natives in Tonquln, Paris, Oct. 17. —Figaro publishes a narra tive of a French officer of the particulars of a massacre of natives at Hue by the French sailors. The story relates that after the natives ceased to resist, they were driven from the burning village unarmed, and then shot in piles, the Frenchmen after ward murdering the wounded. O’DONNELL IN COURT. The Prisoner Pleads “Not Guilty,’* and a Postponement Is Granted. London, Oct. 17.—O’Don: ell pleaded not guilty to the indictment for the murder of Carey. The trial was postponed till No vember 21. Sullivan read the affidavit of the prisoner's solicitor, that the solicitor of O'Donnell at Cape Colony had cabled that there were im portant witnesses there, who could be called to testify in the case. Attorney-general James stated that he would not oppose an application for postponement of the trial if the names of tlie witnesses were inserted in the affidavit and the drift of the evidence to be given by them indicated. After remarks by Judge Denman it was decided to postpone the trial. Previous to Sullivan’s ap plication for postponement, O’Donnell was brought into court, and in response to a question by the judge as to the charge of murder preferred against him, pleaded “Not guilty” in a careless and indifferent manner. General Roger A. Pryor, O’Donnell’s American counsel, was in the court, seated behind the junior counsel’s seat. He was tlie object of much attention on the part oi tlie spectators. Luxuries and food of the best kind are daily sent to O’Donnell from a tavern adja cent to the prison. Maclnery, an Irish law yer, is coming to London to assist in tlie de fense of O’Donnell. SUFFRAGE IN ENGLAND. Reform Conference at Leeds—A Demand for County Franchise. Leeds, Oct. 17. —John Bright arrived this afternoon, unexpectedly, and attended a re form conversazione in the evening. John Morley, in opening tlie conference, was greeted with cheering. He announced that 500 Liberal associations of the kingdom were represented, and expressed a strong opinion that the government should bring in county franchise at the next session of Parliament, because the whole Liberal party in the Com mons, excepting, perhaps, Mr. Goschen, was united in believing the question could no longer be delayed. If the Lords raised ob jection to the measure, it would be danger ous for them. Letters expressing sympathy with tha questions to be discussed were read from Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland; John Bright and Mr. Crawford, the miners’ secre tary. Dr. Dale moved a resolution asserting that it is the duty of the government to produce a bill dealing with tlie county franchise at the next session of Parliament. Mr. Firth proposed an amemlmefit in favor of ttie government giving precedence to county government and London government bills. Mr. Firth’s aniendment was rejeefed by a large majority, and the original motion was carried. A motion that any measure for tlie extension of suffrage should confer elective franchise upon women fit to vote, was carried. The latter motion was sup ported by Messrs. Cobden and Bright. Joseph Arch, the well-known labor ngita-

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4 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. CHANT) OPERA-HOUSE—“Bunch of Keys" Com pany. MGLISn S OPERA-HOUSE —Maude Granger in •‘Her Second Love.” PARK THEATER—Manchester* Jennings’s Special ty Company, BASE HALL PARK—Cleveland vs. Indianapolis, 3 i. m. THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW SON. Frr Rates of Subscription, ere., see Sixth Pace. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1883. TIIK INDIANA I'OI.IS JOURNAL Csnhe found at the followingplaces: 3LON DON—American Exchange in Europe, 419 Strand. JURlS—American Exchange ill Paris, 35 Boulevard dcs Capucines. BEW YORK—Filth Avenue and Windsor Hotels, WASHINGTON. D. O.—Breutano’s 1,015 Pennsylva nia avenue. CHICAGO—PaImer Honse. CINCINNATI—J. c. linwley A Cos., 1M Vine street. J.OUISVILLK—C. T. Bearing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company. Union Depot. A lynching would save court expenses, but it would entail a disgrace that a million ©f money could not obliterate. V ith trousers at a dime or two, a mack erel for a nickel and water free, Indianapolis views the advent of winter with a degree of complacency. It is safe to say that the colored race will not long suffer, if suffer at all, on account of the overthrow of the civil-rights act. If in justice results, the people will see that a remedy is found that shail be efficient. Another panic in a public school and the lives of COO children in danger. A public Bthool-house should never be more than two stories high, and should have a stairway for each room. But better than all are a cool, clear-headed teacher and discipline. Indications are that unless a change comes soon the name of Paul Vandervoort will be added to the already too long list of cranks. His blustering attitude after his removal on account of palpable neglect of duty is very vmsoldier-like, and will excite condemnation rather than sympathy. It seems incredible, but the cable reports fifty deaths daily in Saxony from trichini asis. It is to be hoped that this is not true; but, if so, it would seem to prove that the German hogs are far more subject to that disease than are American swine. No such occurrence as the above has been known west of the Atlantic. When Helyn Leonard was taken from the 4ombs to Blackwell’s island she bore up stoically and made no sign of distress, but when she was obliged to don a bed-ticking dress i broke her heart and she sobbed aloud. This suggests an idea. Don’t con fine women to reformatories, but turn ’em loose in society clad in linsey-woolsey gowns. A town has been found that has the nerve to pronounce against the Jesse James dra matic company. The city council of Rock ford, 111., has requested the management of the opera-house to refuse to open its doors to the performance. It is evil in its influence from beginning to end, and should be driven from existence. No government can afford to allow thieves and cut-throats to be glorified on the stage. The effect can but be perni cious upon the youth of the land, about whom there are too many evil influences already. The First National Bank of Chicago has Inaugurated a plan that will probably be come common soon. It has issued an order that all clerks must give security bond in sums ranging from SI,OOO to $5,000. It is expected that the bulk of these bonds will be furnished by the Guarantee Company of North America, which makes a specialty of such business, charging therefor a premium of one per cent. In the aggregate the amount thus paid will be quite considerable, the bonds required by this one bank only being $300,000, necessitating the payment of $3,000 annually in premiums. Thus the good have to pay for the shortcomings of the evil, and the hurden of thefts is put upon the inno cent. But capital is inexorable, and will probably insist on this new rule. A current item declares that the owner of the now famous trotter, Jay-Eye-See, has re fused an offer of SOO,OOO for ilie animal, hold ing him to be worth not less than SIOO,OOO. No horse, from Pegasus to the veriest plug, was ever or will ever be worth anything like such a sum. That is. such a preposterous value cannot attach to a horse, no matter what his qualities for speed may be. A hun dred thousand dollars is a vast sum. The interest on it at 4 per cent, is $4,000 per annum. This would support a family of ten from now until the day of judgment and enable them to build a $2,000 house each and every year. Jay-Eye-See promises to trot a mile in 2:10, and even better in the near future; but were be to trot a mile in even two minutes he would have an honest value nowhere near the sum at which his owner holds him. For all practical purposes he is worth but little more than a horse that does a mile in tour min utes. This “flyer” gets over a mile on a race-track, under the best conditions, in 2:10%, But he can’t make two mixes in double that time nor anywhere near twenty five miles an hour. A fast horse at best is but a means of gratifying the owner’s vanity. At worst he is made the tool of gamblers. Here it is where his fictitious value arises. Asa racer his owner aud backers may bet and win on him. His jockey will ride him or drive him for all the speed that is in him, aud if he be made to come under the wire even a neck ahead, the unimportant result in itself may result in the acquirement of thousands of un earned dollars. It is absurd to say that a horse is worth the sum above named. For any legitimate use he is not worth the hundredth part of it. LET THE LAW PREVAIL- It is to be sincerely hoped for the credit of all concerned that a lynching will not take place in Benton county. It would be the first ever to take place there, and would leave a blot that would not be wiped out in years. The shame and humiliation would fall upon all. The better class of citizens those who want full justice done and who would uphold the dignity of law and order— should rally to the support of the officials in charge of the criminal. A few words spoken in season and with determination will suf fice to restrain the drunken and irresponsi ble mob from committing a crime only sur passed in ferocity and shame by that of their intended victim. It would appear that the same elements of blood thirstiness were present in the breasts of the mob as those that actuated Nelling when he slaughtered the unoffend ing girl, and that all that was needed to de velop them was an initial crime in order to spread the contagion. What is there in per verted human nature that in a peaceful com munity of presumably law-abiding people one crime should prompt another? The people of Benton county have a right to hang Nelling until he is dead, beyond a doubt. But there is a way prescribed by law for this most serious business. The courts of justice are there, with doors wide open. The judges of this man’s guilt may be chosen from among the people of Benton county. What more can be asked? Everything is in the hands of the people, and a way has been prepared for the disposal of this fiend, even to the extremity of taking his life. In any and all of these methods that conform to the law the people of Benton county will be backed by the moral support of all good people throughout the world. Outside of legal means they will be universally con demned. It may already be plain that Nelling de serves death, but it is not yet plain that others do not deserve the same for the same crime. It would be folly and would defeat justice to put this man beyond the power of confessing more. Let him be kept to tell the whole story. It will come out in time, and it is by no means certain that all is yet known. But aside from the policy of delay, in order to get at all the facts of the case, it is better to stand by the law at all times. No community can afford to tear down this means of common defense. The people of Benton county owe it to justice to try this man impartially and hang him according to law. They owe it to themselves not to re sort to unreasoning mob violence. They would never cease to regret such folly and would never escape the condemnation of law-abiding citi zens the world over. The sheriff and other officials deserve credit for keeping back the rabble that threatened violence to the pris oner, and, now that he has been removed to the Lafayette jail, it maj r be confidently ex pected that no lynching will take place. A LAWYER'S BRIEF. It is a diverting spectacle to see Colonel Ingersoll bewailing the decision of the Su preme Court on the civil-rights law. He thinks it should have been allowed to stand, since it was clearly the intention of the four teenth amendment to guarantee colored peo ple every right enjoyed by the white race in hotels, theaters and railway cars. Nobody more than Ingersoll would be quick to take advantage of a technicality of law favorable to his client, yet in this instance he urges that common sense should override the constitution. There are times when it is exasperating that technical objec tions are allowed to defeat the manifest pur poses of law. But since it is established that the law must be interpreted as it reads, noth ing remains but to abide by it, and if it be ob jectionable let it be amended. It is to be regretted that the constitutional amendment was not written properly, but the court could do nothing else than it did. There is little cause for alarm, however, since if the proprietors and managers of public places of amusement and accom modation and public carriers do not treat the colored man fairly such a sentiment of condemnation will be raised that anew amendment will be easily passed. Thus far there has been little trouble. The good sense of all concerned has made the races har monious, and this good feeiing will doubt less still prevail. It is useless to denounce the Supreme Court. The result should be accepted philosophically and the best made of it. Colonel Ingersoll is undoubtedly sincere in his professions of friendship for the col ored race, and his good sense is creditable to him. But he is in error when he states, or intimates, that by this decision the govern ment discriminates in favor of white men. This is not true. A hotel-keeper who could refuse accommodations to a colored man, has as much right to make the same refusal to a white man. Both races stand exactly alike before the law, and the colored man can hold public carriers or inn-keepers to the same re sponsibility that a white man can. A theatrical manager in Atlanta is de fendant in a civil-rights case similar to the ones on which the recent Supreme Court de cision was based, a negro having brought suit on account of forcible ejectment from the opera-house. News of the decision reached Atlanta during the evening, and in formation was at once conveyed to the man TTIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1883. ager. At the close of the performance that gentleman went upon the stage and an nounced the joyful tidings that white peo ple were no longer in danger of being con taminated by association or contact with members of the colored race in theaters, railroad trains or hotels. As related by the local chronicler: “The audience instantly grasped the full purport of the announcement and burst into such a thunder of applause as was never before heard within the walls of the opera house. This was no sooner subsided than it was repeated and prolonged with even greater unction. The people smiled at each other with beaming faces, and congratulations were exchanged all through the audience. It was welcome news to every one, excepting only the dusky occupants of the colored gal leries. These were silent and evidently smitten with dumfounded consternation. Not a note of applause came from those solemn rows of benches, and their occupants evidently believed that the decision meant the total abrogation of the chief blessings that are involved in the facts of their eman cipation and citizenship.” Luckily for the occupanu? of “colored gal leries,” ihe decision does not mean a loss of all their legal rights, but there is no reason to doubt that the applauding part of that audience would be glad if it were otherwise. Judge Foraker, of Ohio, in a recent speech, gave utterance to common sense views of the civil-rights act before the Su preme Court made known its decision. He declared: “The civil-rights bill does not confer upon the colored man a single legal right which' he does not already possess. For every color ed man in this country has already the full legal right to sleep and eat in any hotel in the land, ride upon any common carriage, at tend any public school, in short, do and en joy any and all things that any other Ameri can citizen, as such, can enjoy. Here in the North he enjoys these rights. The civil rights bill doe3 not, therefore, affectus here.” Mr. Beecher says of Ben. Butler that he “is an apocalyptic vision, with ten horns and as many eyes.” That’s what “Brick” Pomeroy said during the war, but no re spectable man believed him. Great minds, it seems, still run in the same channels. The wily widow is abroad in the land this sea son in great force, but the one with a talent for sacred music is the one who is doing the great est execution. The latest victim reported is Rev. Matthew Newkirk, one of the most promi nent Presbyterian ministers of Philadelphia, where he has had charge of a church for ten years. The widow in the ease is a singer in the choir, beautiful, of course, and of hitherto un blemished reputation. A mutual fondness for each other’s society gradually developed itself between the fair singer and her pastor. Very likely she needed spiritual consolation and pious advice to sustain her in her loneliness, and who so capable of giving it as her minister? How ever this may have been, watchful members of the flock thought the lady was monopolizing too much of the shepherd’s attention in view of the fact that he had a large flock of lambs to look after, to say nothing of a wife and four children. It does not appear that anything more than indiscreet conduct has been proved, but the scandal has grown to such pro portions that the officers of the church have de cided that it cannot be silenced by the pastor’s denial of anything worse than imprudenoe, and have intimated a willingness to accept his resig nation. *Great sympathy for the pastor is ex pressed by the brethren over this impairment of his usefulness; indeed, the impression seems to prevail that he is the viotim of circumstances, ami that the widow alone is guilty. When Rev. Newkirk takes charge of anurher fold he will heed the advice of the wise man, and “bevare of vidders.” Charley Green, of West Virginia, loved, or thought he loved, Ella Foster. The parents ob jected, which made Charley very sure that he loved Ella and could never think of living with out her. He got two friends to steal her out of the house one night aud roust out a preacher. When it came to the point, however, Charley weakened before the awful consummation, and said he didn’t believe he’d marry for a month or so. The fellows who had purloined the girl were too smart to get married themselves, aud not being willing to shoulder the responsi bility of their share of the fun, quietly covered the recalcitrant bridegroom with their revolvers, when he went through the ceremony as cheerfully as men generally do nowadays. The old folks at home pocketed what little aversion they may havo had for the young man, and welcomed the pair with a bless you, my children. Charley probably does not see that the whole scheme was prearranged on the night three years before, when he first called on Ella, A Philadelphia woman dragged her meek little husband before the officers of the Booiety to Protect Children from Cruelty, the other day, and wanted something done to him because he only earned ten dollars a week for the support of himself and sixteen children. He turned over every cent of the money to her, the wife admit ted, but it wasn’t enough, and she wanted him punished. The society couldn’t do anything to relieve the complainant, and sent the couple away. It seemed to be one of those oases where someone ought to be punished, but the officers did not kuow who, and left the matter till an other society ooulu be formed to ameliorate the condition of the human race. Two sisters, sixty j'ears old, are living the life of hermits in the mountains near Lebanon, Pa. For forty years they have lived in a log hut in an almost inaccessible place, aud hold aloof from all human beings. They speak to each other, but never to others; are hard working, and cau fell trees ns handily as the best backwoodsman. They are afraid of nothing, and as they are known to keep axes by their bedside, no one goes fooling around the premises. Asa matter of course, the reason assigned by the neighbors for this eccentric conduct is that the two women were crossed in love in their early days. George Augustus Sala has very kindly given Henry Irving his own “simple plan’’ in meeting the American interviewer, at the same time ad vising him to give thut geutlemau “the fullest scope possible.” The Sala plan is to ask his first interviewer all the questions he can think of touching rneu and affairs, and thereafter “de cauter” the statements thus obtained to other interviewers. Someone could play an awful joke on Henry by “loading up” for him as a first interviewer, that is, If Henry likes the Sala plan, AND so Massachusetts women are not even “persons.” After all they did for Ben. Butler, too! The Governor may try to pacify them by calling eaoh one a personage, but this will he adding age, and insult, and will never do. Beii jamin has gone utterly too far. Eastern aDglers are in competition for a number of prizes awarded for the longest and best throws or casts of flies. The winner scored eighty feet three inches. Wonder if lie could throw a load of wood into the cellar. That would be practical and fully as healthful as wading around in brooks and coming home wet and hungry with a string of flail bought from a country boy who oouldu’t tell a patent “fly” from a liver pad. ABOUT PEOPLE, John Young, one of Brigham Young’s sons, is a better speaker than was the latter, though he is found fault with because he is so good-looking that when preaching he caunol help posing as if to say, “Aint Ia beauty?” Tt is said that Senator Bowen, of Colorado, is responsible for the President’s attending Mr. Tabor’s wedding, and that in consequence the atmosphere of the White House haß been ex tremely frigid for him ever since. On Thursday next the remains of the illus trious surgeon and physician, Harvey, will be removed from the vault under Hempstead Church aud placed in a sarcophagus in Harvey Chapel, at the Royal College of Physlciaus. Dr. Robert B. Dixon, author of “Fore and Aft,” is less than thirty years old, tall, slender, active and affable. He was graduated at the Harvard Medical School, and is considered to be one of the most promising young physicians in Boston. A colored pastor led his congregation to the diamond-field, in Houston, Tex., where the boys were playing base ball on Sunday, and there the brethren and sisters knelt in prayer. They occupied all the bases thus effectually stop ped the game. General Sherman now adorns himself with a pair of huge Chinese spectacles, with thick frames of tortoiseshell, the eyes being com pletely shaded by branches from the outer edge of the glass. He purchased them during his Western tour. A great many people in Washington have supposed that Seuator Spangler, In “A Wash ington Winter,” was but another name for Mr. James G. Blaiue, but a diligent newspaper cor respondent claims to have found it an exact por trait of ex-Senator Stewart, of Nevada. TnE story is told of Seuator “Zeb” Vance, of North Carolina, that soon after his second mar riage he remarked to his bride; “My dear. I’m a stubborn fellow, and you may anticipate trouble. Now, In tho beginning, while lam sub missive, I want to give one piece of advice. If you follow it we’ll get on mighty well. It is this: Make me do just as I darned pleaßft.” Mu. George Riddle, while passing through Detroit, was approached by a reporter, who asked: “What is your racket; Mr. Riddle?” “Racket? I—don’t think I quite understand you.” “Are"you a professional actor or a pro fessor of Greek?” Neither. And I want to tell you that since the production of the ‘CEdipus’ I have frequently been embarrassed oy being called a ‘Greek scholar’ or a ‘Greek dramatist.’” In writing of the whims of great men a Ger man writer notes that Schiller inspired his muse by the smell of rotten apples, which he kept in his desk; Handel loved to think beneath a weep ing wiliow; Haydn wanted champagne by his side when writing; Goethe surrounded himself with works of art, aud Lafontaine often wept over his own romances. Beer is good enough for Ell Perkius when iu the throes of fabulous composition. The King of Siam is a most extraordinary looking man. Karl I is apparently about twenty years of age, and the most remarkable fact con cerning him is the inordinate length of his nails, each of which measures about half a yard. This deformity is considered by the Siamese as an at tribute of and, of course, reduces the mouaroh to a state of absolute helplessness. He can do nothing for himself, and is obliged to have recourse in every instance to his aide-de camp. Lord Mandeville, “a noble Lord he is,” at tended the prize-tight at Harry Hill’s place, Flushing, Tuesday of last week, ne carried a pocket-flask of liquor, which ho twice presented to one of the bruisers called the “Prussian,” and he also carried an heirloom watch which was picked from his pocket by one of the congenial spirits in whose company he was found. Lord Mandeviile should be ashamed of himself, and his loss should teach him to choose better as sociates. Mr. Soh Kwang Pom, secretary of the Corean embassy, is evidently a person of good taste. He says: “The women of America are all far more beautiful than any others we havo seen. I notice most women wear black clothes; many wear blue, and when the weather is warm white is very commonly worn. Some women wear their hats and bonnets tilted back, show ing the front hair, while others wear them squarely on tho head. Os the two, the former style is the nicer to see.” Slaughter Bassett, of Lexington, Ky., paid $5 for the front door sill of the old court-house at that place when the building was torn down. Tt is or stone, and is prized by Bassett because Henry Clay and Aaron Burr stood upon it when the latter asked Clay to defend him, and he pledged his honor that he was innocent of an at tempt at a Western conspiracy. Receiving the pledge, Clay appeared iu Burr’s defense, but afterward declined to speak to him when he found out that Burr had lied. It is told of a prominent Fall-st cet broker that in his office he is found “stretched at his ease on a silken couch, listening in a dreamy way to an entertaining magazine artiole being read to him by his lady amanuensis, while a sec ond lady.clerk rocks softly to aud fro in a willow chair by the wiudow, and the mild sunlight casts fitful shadows upon the richly-decorated walls.” They toil not, neither do they spin; yet Solomon a little after the prime of his glory was not much better off than one of these. An Illinois woman named Margaret Robbins, wife of a well-to-do farmer, got mad at her hus band ten years ago because he lost some money she brought him, went to bed saying 6he wonld never get up or do a stroke of work, and has been there ever since. She felt tired three years ago, started to go to the breakfast table, fell and broke her ankle, aud has not left the sheets since. She is as cross as a bear, scolds every thing an inoli high, keeps a broom handle with which to pound the patient daughter who waits on her, and knows every bit of gossip and scan dal going within thirty miles. It is said that the new portrait of Hawthorne is the result of an artful strategemon the part of John Lothrop Motley. Hawthorne, who could not endure to have his picture taken, was be guiled by Motley into the studio of a Loudon photographer “to examine some portraits,.” The novelist dropped into a chair and Motley, going to the other side of the room, called his atten tion to some object. He looked up with that glance of quick intelligence which his friends remember so well, and at that moment the pho tographer, privy to the little conspiracy, ex posed the plate. This portrait of Hawthorne is said to be the best in existence. The chivalrous conduct of the Duo de Mornv, in conuectiou with the King of Spain’s visit to Paris, must not pass unnoticed. He determined to attract the insults of the populace away from his old “chum” and upon himself. With this view he borrowed an idea from the device adopt ed by tho Duke of Richmond at the battle of Bos worth, and by King Theodore of Abyssynia at the storming of Magdala. He personated the Spanish sovereign, and. seated in “a splendid embassy carriage,” drove along the Esplanade of the Invstiides. exposed to the shouts of “Down with tho Uhlan!” “Down with the Prussians!” while the King himsell, on his way from the Spanish embassy to the Elysee, took a different route. Glories iu Its Shame. Atlanta Constitution. The Indianapolis Journal has discovered a grammatical error in these columns. We glory in this sort of thing. It shows that culture has not turned our heads. A LONG STEP BACKWARD. Views of Prominent Men on the Over throw of Civil Rights. Views of Frederick Douglass and Colonel lugersoll as to Its Effect—Political Bearing: of the Decision, Wasliington Special. Hon. Frederick Douglass was found at his residence by a reporter last night. In his re ply to the interrogatory, “What do yon think of the civil rights decison?” he said; “It is rather disheartening, and I regard it as a step backward. Justice Harlan takes the ground that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were to prohibit any discrim ination in civil rights on account of race, pre vious condition, etc. I do not think it would be consistent for me to say anything now, al though the prompting is strong. The moral effect of the decision will certainly be mis chievous. The country was going along smoothly, and the unification of the people wa3 promised. As I understand, the de cision only applied to the States and not to the Territories, the Dl-trict of Columbia and the great watercou.ses of the country. At the close of the war, in view of the services rendered by colored citizens, there was a disposition on the part of the loyal people of the country to concede to them complete citizenship and equal civil rights in the use of all public conveyances and institutions, and I regard the decision, as far as I understand it, as part of the gen eral reaction naturally following the in creased friendship for the South which comes of the dyingout of the old controversy on the subject of slavery. Nearly all the concessions the colored people have received have been the result of the antagonism of the two sections, and as that antagonism vanishes, I have expected a partial return of the old ideas and usages which preceded the war. Ten years ago I told the colored peo ple that, as they had gained everything from the enmity growing out of the attempted dissolution of the Union between the people of the South aud those of the North, it be hooved them to inquire what they were likely to lose by the friendship of the two sections. The decision, I take it, is in the di rection ar.d interest of the old Calhoun doc trine of State rights as against fed eral authority. I do not, however, despair of the ultimate return of the liberal spirit toward tiie colored people which pre vailed immediately after the war. I think the decision in this case has resulted largely from confounding social with civil rights, things which are entirely distinct. Tnere is no such thing as social equality resulting from living in the same city with other peo ple, walkingon the same street with other people, riding in the same car, buying goods at the same store, or being fed and sheltered at the same hotel. Men may be iu all these positions in civil relations, and yet socially be as wide apart as the poles of the moral universe. Whether so intended or not, the decision of the court seems to be a conces sion to a prejudice which belongs to an ex tinct institution, and places the American people and government far in the rear of the civilized nations of Europe and America; for nowhere in Europe and nowhere outside of the United States can any man be excluded from a hotel or steamboat cabin, or any place of amusement or instruction sim ply on account of his color or race. Even in Brazil the only distinction between men arises from the fact that one is a slave and the other a freeman. A colored freeman has everywhere the same rights in that country as a white freeman. The same condition ex ists in Mexico, Canada and other countries. It is one of the marked contradictions and inconsistencies and absurdities of this prej udice, that, while it is not offended at the presence of a colored man anywhere as a ser vant or a slave, it is enraged at the presence of a colored man as a gentleman and as an equal citizen. “1 have said that I do not despair on ac count of this decision. It is contrary to the Declaration of Independence, contrary to the spirit of Christianity, contrary to the spirit of the age, and, as I think, in violation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, and tends directly to make the colored peo ple of the country an aggrieved class, aiid to weakening that spirit ot patriotism which the nation may need for its protection in some perilous hour.” COLONEL R. G INGERSOLL. “I think it is all wrong. The situation of the framers to the amendment, by virtue of which the law was passed, was that no dis tinction should be made in ir.ns, hotels, cars, nor in theaters; in short, in public places, on account of color, race or previous condition. “The object of the men who framed that amendment to the constitution was perfectly clear, perfectly Well known, perfectly under stood. They intended to secure, by an amendment to the fundamental law, what had been fought for by hundreds of thou sands of men. They knew thut the institu tion of slavery hail cost the rebellion. They also knew that the spirit of caste was only slavery in another form. They intended to kill that spirit. “Their object was that the law, like the sun, should shine upon all, and that no man keeping a hotel, no company running cars, nor no person managing a theater should make any distinction on account of race or color. The amendment is above all praise. It was the result of a moral exaltation, such as the world never before had seen. There were years during the war and after, when the American people were simply sublime; when their generosity was boundless; when their sense of justice was as keen as Christ’s; when they were willing to endure any hard ship to make this an absolutely free coun try. “This decision of the Supreme Court puts the best people of the colored race at the mercy of the meanest portion of the white race. It allows a contemptible white man to trample upon a real good colored man. I believe in drawing a line between good and bad, between clean and unclean, but I don’t believe in drawing a color line, which is as cruel as the lash of slavery. I am willing to be on an equality in all hotels, in all cars, in all theaters, with colored people. I make no distinction of race. Those make the distinc tion who cannot afford not to. If nature has made no distinction between me and some others, I do not ask the aid of the Legis lature. lam willing to associate witii all good, clean persons, irrespective of complex ion. This decision virtually gives away one ot the great principles for which the war was fought. It carries the doctrine of 'State rights’ to the Democratic extreme, ami renders necessary either another amendment or anew court. “I agree with Justice Harlan. He has taken a noble aud patriotic stand. Kentucky re bukes Massachusetts, I am waiting with some impatience—because I anticipate a pleasure —for his dissenting opinion. Only a little while ago the Justice took a noble stand on the Virginia coupon cases, in which was involved the rightof a State to repudiate its debts. Now, be has taken a stand in favor of the civil right of the colored man, and iu both instances I think he is right. This decision may .after all help the Republican party. A decision of the Supreme Court aroused ihe indignation of the entire North, and 1 hope the present decision will have a like effect. The good people of this country will noi satisfied until every man beneath the flag, without the slightest respect to his com plexion, stands on a perfect equality before the law with every other. Any government that makes a distinction on account of color is a disgrace to the age in which we live. The idea that a man like Fred. Douglass can be denied entrance to a car; that the doors of a hotel can be shut in his face; that he may be prevented from entering a theater; the idea that there shall be some ignominious corner into which such a man can be thrown by the decision of the Supreme Court —this idea is simply absurd.” “What remains to be done now, and who is going to do it?” “For a good while people have been say ing that the Republican party tiad outlived its usefulness; that there was very little dif ference now between the parties; that there was hardly enough left to talk about. This decision opens the whole question. This de cision says to the Republican party, ‘Your mission is not ended. This is not a free coun try. Our flag does not yet protect the rights of a human being.’ “This decision is the tap of a drum. The old veterans will fall into line. This decision gives the issue for the next campaign, and it may be that the Supremo Court has huilded wiser than it knew. This is a greater ques tion than tariff or free trade. It is a question of freedom, of human rights, of the sacred ness of humanity. The real American, the real believer in liberty, will give three cheers for Judge Harlan.” Political Bearing of the Decision. Washington Special. The suggestion that ertain Republicans would be likely to use the civil rights de cision as the basis of anew political issue, will be verified. There are several Repub lican congressmen in the city. The subject most discussed by them to-day hes been the decision. Every one of them who has been called upon says that unquestionably an at tempt will be made to commit the Repub licans, as a party, to a movement in favor of a constitutional amendment whicli shall em body in it the principles of the void civil rights act. Some of these congressmen regret the de cision of the court. One of them says that Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is as able a lawyer as there is on the Supreme Bench, and he, throughout the debate, found the law constitutional. Others are pleased with the decision for the reason that, as they put it, it will infuse new life into politics; will awaken some old enthusiasms; will make the Republican party once more the party of moral ideas; will arouse sentiment, and, if in a less degree, will revive the spirit of the old anti-slavery movement. If the congressmen who are here fairly represent the average Republican opinion, unquestionably the Democrats will be com pelled to decide whether or not they will favor a constitutional amendment, embody ing the features of the civil rights law. This probably would not be an issue which the Democrats would welcome, for, unless Re publican opinion is much deceived, the Democratic party would be compelled to place itself in antagonism to such a move ment. A Cliance for the South to Be 3lagnanimoug, Atlanta Constitution. It now behooves the South to show to the world that she is capable of doing the negro fullest and amplest justice without the fear of any impending statute. The place set apart for him in the theater and in the rail road cars should be in every way as good as those occupied by the white men who pay the same money. They should be just as se cure from the intrusion of boisterous per sons and kept in as cleanly and as neat n manner. In short, the grand opportunity is now afforded the South to show that she is as magnanimous as she proved herself to be courageous. She will demonstrate, we have no doubt, that while sl;e could never have been driven by duress into doing what was clearly wrong that she will not be tempted by the removal of all restraint into doing anything that is less than right. The Cheap Dies of the Murmons. New York Letter. It has often been a mystery how the Mor mon missionaries can so extensively impose upon the public in nearly all the countries of Europe. The arguments they use are ex clusively those that appeal to the poor and ignorant. According to the story of a Swedish girl who was converted to Mormon ism but relapsed when she got to New York, the Mormon Bible played the least important part in the inducements held up to her. Sha was fed witii visions of a worldly paradise. She was told that the Utah weather was al ways pleasant, that the population was com posed exclusively of rich men, many of whom were unmarried and wanted wives, and that, finally, one man in particular was wailing to marry her and to shelter her in a palace and to put at her commaud a dozen carriages. Not a Competent Judge. Cleveland Leader. This is a question upon which a Catholic priest is poor authority. He has no wife of iiis own. It is not supposed that his heart ever beat in svmpathy with a pure, beautiful woman. He is shut off from the divine rela tions of marriage, condemned to a life of celibacy, to crawl from the cradle to the grave uncomforted and unconsoled by the angel presence of a true wife. Such a being has no more business to express an opinion of women than the blind man has to dis course upon the varied tints of the rainbow. The Classification of Clerks. Philadelphia Record. Some trouble has arisen in regard to the promotion of messengers to clerkships in the Washington departments, and the fuss made over the matter illustrates the difficulty of dividing people of this country into classes. There ought to be no objection to the anoint ment of any person to a clerkship, if he or she be competent to do the work, whether the applicant be a messenger or a laborer. The Civil-service Commission cannot learn this fact any too soon. Mournful Humorists. Now York Tribuno. We hope the newspaper humorists won't fly at us when we say that Peck’s Bad Boy represents some of ihe tendencies that are found in too much of the humorous writing nowadays. We recall nothing else so strange ly vulgar as this, unless it is Mr. “Mark Twain’s” own delicate humorous account of the misunderstanding occasioned by a box containing a Limburger cheese being placed in tiie same car with a corpse on its way to the grave. Hard to Suit. Philadelphia Press. The Free-will Baptists of Minnesota frank, lv admit that they feel alarmed at President Arthur’s drinking habits, which is pretty bad. However, it’s a hard thing to taka enough water to please a Free-will Baptise. Setting Up as Tycoon. Atlanta Constitution. The fact that Mr. Langtry has detailed lu's mother-in-law to accompany Mrs. Langtry to this country shows that he has lost confi* deuce in a republican form of government, Not Unlikely. Philadelphia Record. Mr. P. H. Armour, of Chicago, says “bet. tom prices have been readied." Mr. Armoui probably intends to build a corner on this foundation.

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